With the gender gap also holding up, and with popular attitudes to things like gay marriage steadily becoming more liberal, Teixeira says that the election is shaping up as a contest between demography and economics.
It seems plausible that there are attitudes to things and people which are deeper and more immediate than inferential belief.
The strong Buddhist traditions, along with decades of national isolation imposed by the military dictatorship, have reinforced conservative attitudes to things like homosexuality, and thus pose a bigger obstacle to the LGBT community than any outdated legal codes.
But even in the current security-conscious zeitgeist, security concerns do not loom that large in our government's attitude to things economic.
I could define my attitude to things only on the basis of my professional knowledge, and I did not know what had caused the leadership to make the decisions which they transmitted to us.
Mum said it was hard to pinpoint, but joked about my relaxed attitude to things, which she would have expected other people's children to become worked up about.
The club's journal, Left News, said that "even games, songs and recreation can, and indeed should, reflect and awaken a leftwing attitude to things... walks, tennis, golf and swimming are quite different when your companions are 'comrades of the left'".
The Dutch are renowned for their tolerant attitude to things like soft drugs and prostitution, but many Dutch simultaneously maintain a lingering aura of their Calvinist history, which betrays itself in aspects ranging from bland food to a disapproving raised eyebrow in the face of even mild hedonism.
Research repeatedly shows that the English, Welsh and Scots have very similar attitudes to most things – welfare, Europe, immigration, liberty versus authority and the rest.
Still, it doesn't help distinguish the relatively clear, objective statements of fact from the invariably subjective and shifting opinions that give voice to a person's inner feelings, sentiments and attitudes to various things.It is precisely the difficulty of extracting this emotionally charged content from the detached, hard-boiled sort that makes sentiment analysis such a tough nut to crack.
…it is quite interesting to follow him how… So it's a little like what kind of strategies he uses and, in general, attitudes to patients, things like that.
